If your device comes with GPS support and you have a Navigation Application on your PC (such as Microsoft Autoroute), you can use your device as a GPS receiver for the application. Plus, it's always ...

As GPS technology becomes more common, GPS receiver manufacturers, OEM integrators, and contract manufacturers struggle to determine the appropriate standard tests to verify GPS receiver performance.

The usual way of adding GPS capabilities to a project is grabbing an off-the-shelf GPS module, plugging it into a UART, and reading the stream of NMEA sentences coming out of a serial port. Depending ...

or dog collar to keep track of whereabouts afield. Regardless of how you enjoy the outdoors, like most hunters and anglers these days, you’ve probably tapped into the Global Positioning System in one ...

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...

At the heart of GPS is the ability to measure the distance from a receiver to several satellites. There are always 4 to 8 satellites visible at any given time. Each satellite sends out a signal, which ...

[superlopez] sent in this detailed article (mirrored here and here) which describes how to build a GPS and GLONASS (the Russian version of GPS) receiver. The resulting device is gigantic compared to ...